Karan advises clients on large-scale supply chain, procurement, digital, and operational transformation. He combines strategic vision with operational execution to help organizations accelerate growth, improve resiliency, modernize operations, and deliver measurable business outcomes at scale.
About Karan
Karan brings a proven track record of advising Fortune 500 companies, private equity sponsors, and global enterprises on growth, cost transformation, operating model redesign, digital and AI-enabled business transformation. He has led large-scale consulting and managed services businesses across North and Latin America, with deep experience scaling enterprise supply chain and procurement platforms, leading profit and loss (P&L) operations, integrating acquisitions, and commercializing next-generation AI capabilities.
Karan has been a trusted advisor to C-suite executives and collaborated with private equity sponsors and Fortune 500 leadership teams on procurement-led cost transformation and working capital improvement initiatives. He helps accelerate enterprise value creation through self-funded operating models and enterprise transformation programs designed to drive measurable EBITDA impact.
Throughout his career, Karan has:
- Led a global supply chain modernization for a large industrial manufacturer spanning complex enterprise resource planning (ERP) environments and global operations, delivering significant sourcing savings, increased managed spend, and improved demand-to-supply synchronization through AI-enabled orchestration capabilities.
- Commercialized and scaled an AI-first supply chain and procurement operating model across multi-industry enterprise clients, deploying AI agents across sourcing, planning, supplier management, and operational workflows to improve decision velocity, productivity, and resiliency.
- Driven post-acquisition integration of strategic sourcing and procurement technology, cost transformation, and digital manufacturing capabilities, helping expand platform capabilities, accelerate go-to-market scale, and support enterprise growth initiatives.
- Built and led global cross-functional teams across consulting, product, engineering, operations, and managed services, with accountability for commercial growth, delivery quality, talent development, and P&L performance.
Prior to joining Huron, Karan served as a Managing Director at Accenture, where he was a leader within the Americas Sourcing & Procurement practice in Supply Chain & Operations. In that role, he led large-scale, multibillion-dollar transformation initiatives across a broad range of industries.
Karan holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and International Business from the University of Illinois at Chicago.